U.S. Artists Initiative
Schedule
The full general festival programme can be found at http://rokgrotowskiego.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50&Itemid=38
Sunday, June 14
- Arrivals
- 15:00 - 16:00 Meet Joanna Klass on outside terrace of Literatka (Rynek 56)
- 16:30 - 19:00 See The Danton Case, dir. Jan Klata (Teatr Polski)
- 19:30 US Artists Initiative Welcome/Cocktail (Festival Club)
Monday, June 15
- 10:30 - US Artists Initiative Session #1: Orientation (Festival Club)
- 16:45 - Meet bus at Nowy Targ Square for 17:00 departure to Michałowice.
Overnight visit with Teatr Cinema. Bring warm layers.
Tuesday, June 16
- Day trip to Legnica for site-specific performance marathon by Modjeska Theatre and midday lunch with Jacek Głomb, director of Modjeska Theatre
-Bus from Michałowice departs at 12:30
-Bus from Wrocław departs at 13:00 - meet at 12:45, Nowy Targ Square
- Return to Wrocław very late night
Wednesday, June 17
- 11:00 - 13:00 US Artists Initiative Session #2: Participant Introductions
(Festival Club, Sala Gotycka)
- 14:00 (Optional) Exhibition at Wrocław Academy of Fine Arts (ul. Plac Polski 3/4)
- 16:00 - 17:00 (Optional) Film screening: Odin Teatret, Ascent to the Sea (Teatr Lalek)
- 21:00 - 22:30 See UR-HAMLET , dir. Eugenio Barba (Arsenal)
- 23:00 Drinks with Grotowski Institute staff (Festival Club)
Thursday, June 18
- 11:00 - 13:00 US Artists Initiative Session #3: Laboratory Ensembles, led by American Russian Theatre Ensemble Laboratory/ARTEL and Double Edge Theatre; introduction by Philip Arnoult (Festival Club)
- 20:00 - 10:40 See CLEANSED, dir.Krysztof Warlikowski (Teatr Wspołczesny)
Friday, June 19
- 11:00 - 12:00 US Artists Initiative Session #4a: Presentation about Teatr Wspołczesny by Joanna Biernacka, introduction by Philip Arnoult/CITD (Teatr Lalek)
- 12:00 – 14:00 US Artists Initiative Session #4b: Conversation with Lee Breuer,
Co-founder, Mabou Mines (Teatr Lalek), moderated by Stephen Nunns
- 19:00 - 20:15 See DANCING WITH FATHER, Plavo Pozorište (Festival Club,
Sala Gotycka)
Saturday, June 20
- 11:00 - 13:00 US Artists Initiative Session #5: Coffee Talk / Responding to Week 1 (Festival Club) Paths for evening marathon will be assigned at this time
- 14:00 - 17:00 (Optional) Film Screening: KRUM, dir. Krysztof Warlikowski (Teatr Lalek)
- 16:00 Mandatory Nap before All-Night Marathon
- The Night of Theatres in Wrocław
- Culminating soiree at the Festival Club
Sunday, June 21
- 11:00 - 13:00 US Artists Initiative Session #6: New Voices, New Moves in the Russian Theatre, led by Philip Arnoult/CITD; feat. Yury Urnov, Olya Petrakova, Steven Leigh Morris (Teatr Lalek)
- 17:00 - 18:00 Film Screening: MEDEA MATERIAL, dir. Anatoly Vassiliev
(Teatr Lalek)
- 19:00 - (Optional) Poetry reading by Cecilia Woloch (Festival Club)
- 21:00 - 10:20 See BALI JEWELS, Gambuh Desa Ensemble, Bali (Old Market Square)
Monday, June 22
- 11:00 - 11:45 US Artists Initiative Session #7A: Participant Introductions, Round 2 (Festival Club)
- 12:00 - 14:00 US Artists Initiative Session #7B: Conversation with Grzegorz Bral, Song of the Goat Theatre; introduction by Joanna Klass (Festival Club)
- 16:00 - 17:00 (Optional) Film screening, Terzopoulos’ The Journey with Dionysus (Teatr Lalek)
- 17:00 - Public Conversation with Theodoros Terzopoulos (Teatr Lalek)
- 20:00 - 21:10 See AJAX, THE MADNESS, dir. Theodoros Terzopoulos (Teatr Polski, Scena im. Jerzego Grzegorzewskiego
Tuesday, June 23
- 11:00 - 12:45 US Artists Initiative Session #8A: New Polish Drama, feat. Małgorzata Sikorska, Małgorzata Semil, Jan Klata; introduction by Joanna Klass. With short readings of new work by Małgorzata Sikorska (Teatr Lalek)
- 13:00 - 15:00 US Artists Initiative Session #8B: New Play Development in the U.S., led by Jon Lawrence Rivera/Playwrights’ Arena (Festival Club)
- 16:00 - 17:45 (Optional) Radio Play: Therese the Philosopher (Acts II & IV), dir. Anatoly Vassiliev (Teatr Lalek)
- 18:00 Public Conversation with Anatoli Vassiliev (Teatr Lalek)
- 18:45 - Meet bus at Nowy Targ Square for 19:00 departure to Brzezinka
- 20:00 - 21:30 See ON SUNDAY MORNING, Majsternia Pisni (Brzezinka)
- 23:00 Drinks with members of Majsternia Pisni at the Festival Club
Wednesday, June 24
- 10:00 - 11:00 US Artists Initiative Session #9A: Community-Collaborative Theatre, led by Tali Pressman/Cornerstone Theater Company (Festival Club, Sala Gotycka)
- 11:30 - 13:00 US Artists Initiative Session #9B: From Los Angeles to New York: Within and Beyond the Frame, led by Mark Valdez & Nick Slie/Network of Ensemble Theatres, feat. Barbara Lanciers/Trust for Mutual Understanding (Festival Club)
- 16:00 - 17:00 (Optional) Film Screening: Bacci’s Limits of Experience: Trilogy of the Compgnia Laboratorio di Pontedera (Teatr Lalek)
- 17:00 Public Conversation with Roberto Bacci (Teatr Lalek)
- 20:00 - 21:20 See HAMLET, FROM THE FLESH COMES SILENCE, dir. Roberto Bacci (Teatr Polski, Scena Na Swiedbodszkim
Thursday, June 25
- 10:00 - 11:45 US Artists Initiative Session #10: Training & Education, feat. Kathleen Cioffi, Robert Cohen, Stephen Nunns, Rob Orchard, Eli Simon; moderated by Martha Coigney (Teatr Lalek)
- 12:00 -14:00 US Artists Initiative Session #11: Les Enfants Terribles of Polish Repertory Theatre (Teatr Lalek)
- 16:00 - (Optional) “Grotowski for School Children – a gathering for admirers, enemies, and those who don’t know anything about Jerzy Grotowski’s work.” A lecture by Dariusz Kosinski, author of the book Grotowski. Przewodnik. (Roof of DH Renoma, ul Swidnicka)
- 17:30 - (Optional) Exhibition Opening: Grotowski – Haiti: Culture of Voodoo. Work-in-progress. (Teatr Lalek)
- 19:00 – 21:10 See GOSPELS OF CHILDHOOD. DIPTYCH, Teatr ZAR (Sala Apokalipsy, Grotowski Institute)
- 21:30 - Dinner with Teatr ZAR (Basement of Grotowski Institute)
Friday, June 26
- 10:00 - 11:15 US Artists Initiative Session #12A: Conversation with Ron Sossi & Beth Hogan/Odyssey Theatre Ensemble; introduction by Joanna Klass
(Festival Club)
- 11:30 - 12:00 US Artists Initiative Session #12B: Post-Grotowski Theatre in Europe: Response to the Eastern Line, led by Philip Arnoult
- 12:00 - 13:00 US Artists Initiative Session #12C: Post-Grotowski Theatre in the United States, led by Kathleen Cioffi; feat. Richard Schechner, Ron Sossi, Beth Hogan (Festival Club)
- 16:00 - 17:00 (Optional) Film screening: Peter Brook, Brook by Brook (Teatr Lalek)
- 17:00 Public conversation with Peter Brook (Teatr Lalek)
- 20:00 - 21:00 See FRAGMENTS, dir. Peter Brook (Teatr Wspolczesny)
Saturday, June 27
- 11:00 - 13:00 US Artists Initiative Session #13: Presenting International Theatre in the United States, feat. Mark Murphy, David Sefton, Meiyin Wang; also Barbara Lanciers/Trust for Mutual Understanding; moderated by Joanna Klass (Festival Club)
- 16:00 - 17:00 (Optional) Film screening: UNSIGNED PACT WITH THE DEVIL… OR WANDERS WITH LUDWIK FLASZEN (Teatr Lalek)
- 17:00 Public conversation with Ludwik Flaszen (Teatr Lalek)
- 18:00 - 19:00 See ELECTRA, dir. Tadashi Suzuki (Teatr Polski, Scena Na Grzegorzewskiego)
- 21:00 (Optional) Open-air rooftop performances by Teatro Accion (Argentina), Poor Dog Group (Los Angeles), and PWST (Wroclaw) (Roof of DH Renoma, ul Swidnicka)
Sunday, June 28
- 10:30 - 12:30 US Artists Initiative Session #14: Writing about Experimental Work: Theory, Journalism, Criticism, feat. Kathleen Cioffi, Stephen Nunns, Steven Leigh Morris, Jim O’Quinn, Tom Sellar; moderated by John Freedman (Festival Club)
- 13:00 - 14:30 (Optional) Film screening: Tadashi Suzuki, First International Theatre Festival in Toyoma. Toga Festival ’82. (Teatr Lalek)
- 14:30 - Public conversation with Tadashi Suzuki (Teatr Lalek)
- 16:30 - 17:20 (Optional) Film screening, Pina Bausch (Teatr Lalek)
- 19:30 - 22:20 See NEFES, dir. Pina Bausch (Opera)
- 22:30 - All-Festival Dinner and Party (Festival Club)
Monday, June 29
- 10:00 - 11:00 Presentation by Michal Merczynski, Director of the MALTA Festival and Director of the National Audiovisual Institute/NINA (Teatr Lalek)
- 11:15 - 13:45 Private performance of Schechner’s HAMLET, THAT IS THE QUESTION (Teatr Polski, Scena Na Swiebodzkim)
- 14:00 - 15:00 US Artists Initiative Session #15: Post-performance Q&A with Richard Schechner and the company of HAMLET (Teatr Polski, Scena Na Swiebodzkim)
- 16:00 (Optional) Film screening: Lupa’s Immanuel Kant (Teatr Lalek)
- 19:00 - 20:40 See THE TEMPTATION OF QUIET VERONICA, dir. Krystian Lupa (WFF)
- 22:30 Public conversation with Pina Bausch (Opera)
Tuesday, June 30
- 11:00 - 13:00 U.S. Artists Initiative Closing Session (Festival Club)
- 16:00 - 17:00 (Optional) Film screenings: Richard Schechner, D69, Tooth of Crime, & Yokastas Redux (Teatr Lalek)
- 17:00 - Public conversation with Richard Schechner (Teatr Lalek)
- 19:00 - (Optional) Wroclaw theatre performance TBD
- 20:45 - Public conversation with Krystian Lupa (WFF)
- 22:00 - Closing U.S. Artists Initiative Party (Festival Club)
Wednesday, July 1
Thursday, July 2
*Throughout the festival, our Polish-speaking Artist Liaisons will be available to accompany individuals and small groups around Wroclaw for sight-seeing tours and expeditions (Cathedral Island, Botannical Gardens, Centennial Hall, modernist architecture tour, famous bridges and rivers, flea markets, night clubs, etc). More information upon arrival.